Aphids have a complex life cycle, which involves migrating from one plant to the other during different seasons of the year. This is why it seems like they just appeared out of nowhere in your garden.

On a recent walk on the SCC campus with her horticulture students, they found aphids everywhere, even in her classroom where she has a number of live weed plants set out for study.

Three main aphids can cause damage to cereal crops – grain, bird cherry-oat and rose-grain. The first attacks the ear and the other two tend to feed on the leaves.

Aphids are common pests in the garden, and they are particularly attracted to roses. If you want to get rid of the critters, there is a simple two-ingredient solution that can help ...

The aphid is the blue and red insect in the middle of the frame (1). You can This site uses cookies and ... called a gall. Inside this shelter, the aphid reproduces parthenogenetically – meaning it ...

However, aphids develop into wingless and winged forms, and Kazana found that larvae that attacked winged aphids fared much better. Only one in six of these attackers died of chemical poisoning.

New Yorkers remain bugged over the recent swarm of tiny, winged insects that have infested the Big Apple. Although entomology experts insist the tiny aphids don’t pose any health risk ...

In this photo provided by Andrew Jensen, an aphid feeds on a native flowering plant called "prairie smoke" (Geum triflorum) in Idaho near Slate Creek in the Nez-Perce National Forest on May 25, 2013.

Aphids are common all over the United States, and hardly new to New York. They are small, pear-shaped insects that come in a variety of colors including green, red, yellow, black, brown and gray.

While he is not an aphid expert — there are very few — Lohman said the swarms are unusual, given that aphids don't usually come out in New York City until after summer.

Woolly aphids often choose autumn to briefly adopt a fuzzy winged form, and this year’s hatch was particularly spectacular, arriving like a second bloom of cottonwood cotton or a plague of fairies.